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This zine provides an excellent overview on what a collective is, why you should organize one, how you do it, and what you do once the collective is formed. It offers a bunch of helpful ideas on everything from running meetings to communicating with other groups. It also includes several essays exploring different aspects of collectives, their history, and their power. Highly recommended! Topics: zine, zines, anarchist, anarchism, collectives, organizing

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This zine looks at the often and sadly unrecognized dynamics that can often occur in egalitarian collectives. The zine covers common problems, how they manifest themselves, what the group and the individual can do to address them, and more. This zine is great for people having issues in their collective and for collectives who want to guard against such problems. Topics: zine, zines, collectives, consensus, anarchism, anarchist, cooperatives

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This short zine provides a basic introduction to collectives and how they challenge the dominant notions of "mass" based politics and society. It argues that the goal of a collective is replication of its form--encouraging others to start their own collectively-run efforts--rather than persuading everyone to join one big collective. It's a good read for people starting an anarchist collective. Topics: zine, zines, collectives, collective, organizing, anarchist, anarchism

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This is a classic essay from the 1970s that argues against idea of "mass" organizing in favor of focusing on the primacy of the collective. From the introduction: "The uniqueness of developing collectives is their definitive break with all hierarchic forms of organization and reconstructing of a classless society." Despite its age, this zine offers important considerations and arguments for organizing collectives. Topics: anarchism, anarchist, collectives, organizing, zine, zines

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This zine from the 1990s looks at anarchist approaches to housing beyond squatting, focuses mainly on cooperatives, collectives, and the idea of anarchist neighborhoods and temporary autonomous zones. It offers some good criticisms and thoughts on the subject. Topics: anarchism, anarchist, zine, zines, housing, collectives, cooperatives

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We’ve all heard the phrase “two heads are better than one.” How about a dozen creatives with a cause? Author and professor Francesco Spampinato showcases forty of the most influential art collectives from design studios to political performance artists and everything in between in his book, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design. Two groups he features have Chicago presences. In today’s episode - contributing writer Cora Vasseur interviews Francesco Spampinato,... Topics: art, culture, artist, francesco spaminato, art collectives, interview

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The third issue of a magazine from 1972, which includes fictional articles on issues of architecture and Italian society from the perspectives of capitalists, workers, students, activists and architects. The other two in the series include Utopia and Struggle for Housing. By the Strum Group (Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro de Rossi, Carlo Giammarco, Riccardo Rosso, Maurizio Vogliazzo), as part of a project for the MoMA in NYC. Topics: architecture, working class, architectural utopias, housing, collectives, leaflet

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Members of Bay Area worker cooperatives will share their thoughts on the history and practice of democratic organization, decision making, equitable employment, and the effects that these organizations have had on the local economy (Rainbow, Inkworks, Box Dog Bikes, Design Action, NoBAWC). Topics: Cooperatives, collectives, self-management, self-employment, democracy, economic democracy

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In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the '60s and '70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new... Topics: communes, communards, coops, urban, rural, collectives, farms, technology, accountability, Whole...

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A handbook for community groups or other organizations that describes the process of making decisions and resolving conflict through consensus techniques. The layout is a scrambled montage of "main text" and boxes containing personal statements, examples, artifacts from the writing process, and additional bits of information. Topics: consensus, community, cooperatives, communication, decision-making, group facilitators,...

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A manual of guidelines and effective techniques for group facilitation, including information on workshop planning, group process, communication and group dynamics, dealing with conflicts, crisis intervention, and problem solving. Topics: group behavior, group facilitators, group dynamics, collectives, leadership training, planning,...

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The challenges and possibilities facing worker-owner cooperatives in Western Massachusetts and world-wide are featured in a November 12, 2010 broadcast of the Bread & Roses Show on Valley Free Radio, WXOJ, 103.3FM, valleyfreeradio.org One of the only worker-run bookstores in U.S., Food for Thought Books in Amherst, MA faces serious economic challenges. Collective member Javiera Benavente outlines the situation and the bookstoreâs history and role as a center for progressive information and... Topics: worker collectives, Western Massachusetts, solidarity economy, Food for Thought Bookstore, Center...

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http://mwic.infopart of an archive of pdfs published in 2011 focusing on several creative histories in south florida from 1975-2010Adalberto Delgado was part of an artist collective known as NADA which only existed for a short amount of time, this pdf focuses on Adalberto Delgado's personal ephemera of the time Topics: Adalberto Delgado, Miami, NADA, Art, History, Art History, Performance Collectives, 1980s, MIami...

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Barbara Mudimba, basket artist & Viola Mwembe, gallery and sales assistant, (in ChiTonga, Viola translates); Binga Craft Centre, footage recording in 8 tracks (38:50). see also playlist of clips : https://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Binga_204 Barbara Mudimba is a woman from Kariangwe, a village in the Binga district. She started weaving baskets as a means of survival, providing for herself and her family. She tells that she used to see other women doing the weaving, got interested it,... Topics: Zimbabwe, Binga, Kariangwe, Binga Craft Centre, BaTonga, craft, basket weaving, patterns,...